- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:02:14 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Sam Ruby wrote: > ... > A decision[1] was made to publish a WD including Microdata. More than > ample time was given for everybody to object, and in fact a number of > objections were raised and dealt with. > > While no formal assessment of consensus or final decisions on packaging > (same spec, split specs) were made, as far as the content goes, the WG > made decisions to publish both Microdata and RDFa as WDs. > ... The inclusion of microdata into HTML5 has been controversial since the day it appeared in the spec. The related tracker issue was opened on August 10: <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/76> The first WG draft that included Microdata was, as far as I recall, published on August 25 (<http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090825/>). Furthermore, publishing WDs was sold as "being needed for meeting the heartbeat requirement". So, for the record: I believe that Microdata does not belong into HTML5, and I believe I have said so since the moment it was included. The fact that I did not object to publishing a snapshot as Working Draft does *not* indicate that I was ok with including Microdata at that point. Best regards, Julian
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